today we assigned blogs to people who were gone and all assignments are due wednesday december 15th.
Causes of WWI- militarism is where a country has a strong army and navy. iperialism is taking over colonies. and they have disputes over which area they want that leads to war. nationalism is having a great devotion or loyalty to a country. economic competition was competing for money, power, and other things around the world. system of alliances is where countries are like a friend to another or other countries. Russia is out of the war in 1917 and the U.S. gets in.
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand- garvrilo princip was the one who assasinated Franz Ferdinand kind of starting WWI.
Trenches- are a trench dug everywhere zig-zagged and it was in no mans land. they all streamed into one main trench. there were different levels of trenches. distances between trenches varied by where they were. chlorine and mustard gases were used to suprise the enemy.
the zimmerman note was a coded telegram sent by arthur zimmerman the foreign secretary of the german empire. propaganda was trying to get people to join the war or just join something. the homefront was where you would have a fight in your home country. U.S. paid for WWI by taxes and liberty loans.
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